Matium
Matium a maritime city of Crete, next to the E. of Apollonia in Pliny's list (4.12), and opposite to the island of Dia,--Contra Matium Dia
(l.c.). The modern Megálo-Kástron occupies the ancient site. (Pashley, Trav. vol. i. pp. 172, 261; Höck, Kreta, vol. i. pp. 12, 403.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.